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The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.

Karl Marx

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
KARL MARX

Black Black Lives Matter Brand Freedom Labour Skin White
Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
KARL MARX

Criticism Opinion Science Welcome
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
KARL MARX

Book Machine One Liner
Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
KARL MARX

Dominate Essence Himself Labour Life Man Money Worship
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
KARL MARX

Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX

Class History Society Struggle
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX

Consicious Freedom Necessary
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
KARL MARX

Existence Reason
Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.
KARL MARX

Expression Individual Life Man Nature Relationship
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
KARL MARX

Himself Man Matter Radical Root
In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
KARL MARX

Decay History Laboratory Life Nature One Liner
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
KARL MARX

Appearance Essence Science
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
KARL MARX

Allow Class Decision Oppression Particular Politics Represent
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX

Happiness People Religion Requisite
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
KARL MARX

Control History Past People
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
KARL MARX

Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange

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